I have rtmp stream created by flash player in h264 but when i convert it to video or tumbnail using ffmpeg it some times works after very very long time and some time not work but if I create a stream with Flash Media live encoder on same FMS server the command below works fine. At the same time if I try the stream in player it works well and fine.
I am using IP so DNS resolving issue is not possible either I think.
ffmpeg -i rtmp://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/live/bdeef2c065509361e78fa8cac90aac741cc5ee29 -r 1 -an -updatefirst 1 -y thumbnail.jpg
Following is when it worked aftre 15 - 20 minutes
ffmpeg -i "rtmp://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/live/bdeef2c065509361e78fa8cac90aac741cc5ee29 live=1" -r 1 -an -updatefirst 1 -y thumb.jpg
[root@test ~]# ffmpeg -i rtmp://38.125.41.20/live/bdeef2c065509361e78fa8cac90aac741cc5ee29 -r 1 -an -updatefirst 1 -y thumbnail.jpg
ffmpeg version N-49953-g7d0e3b1-syslint Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Feb 14 2013 15:29:40 with gcc 4.4.6 (GCC) 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-decoder=liba52 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib --enable-version3 --extra-version=syslint
libavutil 52. 17.101 / 52. 17.101
libavcodec 54. 91.103 / 54. 91.103
libavformat 54. 63.100 / 54. 63.100
libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
libavfilter 3. 37.101 / 3. 37.101
libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100
[flv @ 0x14c0100] Stream #1: not enough frames to estimate rate; consider increasing probesize
[flv @ 0x14c0100] Could not find codec parameters for stream 1 (Audio: none, 0 channels): unspecified sample format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
[flv @ 0x14c0100] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/bdeef2c065509361e78fa8cac90aac741cc5ee29':
Metadata:
keyFrameInterval: 15
quality : 90
level : 3.1
bandwith : 0
codec : H264Avc
fps : 15
profile : baseline
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Baseline), yuv420p, 640x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 30 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: none, 0 channels
Output #0, image2, to 'thumbnail.jpg':
Metadata:
keyFrameInterval: 15
quality : 90
level : 3.1
bandwith : 0
codec : H264Avc
fps : 15
profile : baseline
encoder : Lavf54.63.100
Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 640x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 1 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> mjpeg)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame= 2723 fps=1.3 q=1.6 size=N/A time=00:45:23.00 bitrate=N/A dup=8 drop=12044
and on stopping the stream by closing the browser running the flash player which is publishing the video I get the following
[flv @ 0x23684e0] Could not find codec parameters for stream 1 (Audio: none, 0 channels): unspecified sample format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
[flv @ 0x23684e0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/live/bdeef2c065509361e78fa8cac90aac741cc5ee29':
Metadata:
keyFrameInterval: 15
quality : 90
bandwith : 0
level : 3.1
codec : H264Avc
fps : 15
profile : baseline
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Baseline), yuv420p, 640x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 15 tbr, 1k tbn, 30 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: none, 0 channels
when if i stop the stream it quickly creates a thumbnail file where as running stream is an issue.